Course Content and Outcome Guide for ENG 105 Effective Winter 2017

Course Description

Examines plays as literature and as an art form designed to provoke thought and to challenge social norms; considers drama as an expression of human experience. Prerequisites: WR 115 and RD 115 or equivalent placement test scores. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

Engage, through the dramatic works, unfamiliar and diverse cultures, experiences and points of view.

Articulate ways in which the works of drama contributes to self-understanding.

Recognize the text as a product of a particular culture and historical moment and its relationship to different art forms.

Recognize the role of form and how it influences meaning by identifying the variety of stylistic choices that authors make within given forms.

Evaluate various interpretations of a play and their validity through reading, writing and speaking, and through individual and group responses and analyze the support/evidence for a particular interpretation.

Conduct research to find materials appropriate to use for literary analysis, using MLA conventions to document primary and secondary sources in written response to a literary text.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Acknowledge the possibility of multiple interpretations of a text; Articulate various possible interpretations of a text; Recognize that not all interpretations of a text are equally valid. Assessment tools may include responses to study questions; evaluation of small and full-group discussion; in-class and out-of-class writing exams and essays; and reviews of plays. Performance of scenes from plays may also be included as an assessment task.